konyv! Neural Organization (fwd)

The volume "Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamics" by Michael A. Arbib, Peter Erdi, and Janos Szentagothai is now available from the MIT Press. See the MIT Press website for additional information: http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026201159X The volume can be viewed at the MIT Press booth at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans. MIT Press offers a 20% discount for orders placed using forms available at the meeting. -----The following is additional information about the volume----- "Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamics" Michael A. Arbib, Peter Erdi, and Janos Szentagothai ISBN 0-262-01159-X 328 pp. (8.5 x 11 double column), 163 illus. $60.00 (cloth) In Neural Organization, Arbib, Erdi, and Szentagothai integrate structural, functional, and dynamical approaches to the interaction of brain models and neurobiologcal experiments. Both structure-based "bottom-up" and function- based "top-down" models offer coherent concepts by which to evaluate the experimental data. The goal of this book is to point out the advantages of a multidisciplinary, multistrategied approach to the brain. Part I of Neural Organization provides a detailed introduction to each of the three areas of structure, function, and dynamics. Structure refers to the anatomical aspects of the brain and the relations between different brain regions. Function refers to skills and behaviors, which are explained by means of functional schemas and biologically based neural networks. Dynamics refers to the use of a mathematical framework to analyze the temporal change of neural activities and synaptic connectivities that underlie brain development and plasticity--in terms of both detailed single-cell models and large-scale network models. In part II, the authors show how their systematic approach can be used to analyze specific parts of the nervous system--the olfactory system, hippocampus, thalamus, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia--as well as to integrate data from the study of brain regions, functional models, and the dynamics of neural networks. In conclusion, they offer a plan for the use of their methods in the development of cognitive neuroscience. ********************************* Michael A. Arbib USC Brain Project University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA arbib(a)pollux.usc.edu (213) 740-9220; Fax: (213) 740-5687 http://www-hbp.usc.edu/HBP/ Peter Erdi Dept. Biophysics KFKI Research Inst. for Particel and Nucelar Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest, Hungary (36-1)1-325-920; Fax: (36-1)395-9151 http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/biofiz/biophysics.html